[privacy] Mueller: FBI Improperly Sought Personal Data

[Paul Ferguson]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Yet more surveillance abuses...

Via MSNBC (AP).

[snip]

An internal Justice Department report has found more improper use of
national security letters by FBI agents seeking personal data on Americans
during terror and spy investigations, Director Robert Mueller said
Wednesday.

Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the privacy breach by FBI
agents and lawyers occurred a year before the bureau enacted sweeping new
reforms to prevent future lapses.

Details on the abuses will be outlined in the coming days in a report by
the Justice Department's inspector general.

[snip]

More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23483287/

Also:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9886448-7.html

Additional background:
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nationalsecurityletters/32904prs20071129.html

- - ferg

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017)

wj8DBQFHzvAwq1pz9mNUZTMRAu/fAKCJWXnQUIO6UMfXtC/g6FDJH45+OQCeKGow
NpgxV2XwsvpMkyNW5JcGVrg=
=Gg65
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/